Amazing dads: JAMES DENNY

JAMES DENNY, 65, of Gardendale. Nominated by his son Greg Denny of Pelham.

When his 5-year-old son died in 1973 of leukemia, the bills drove Denny into bankruptcy at about the same time he was about to lose his job. He pushed on, Greg says, getting a lower paying job in the electrical wholesale business and worked weekends as a security guard. "He saved the house and kept our family together," says Greg.